9781594200328 - Explorers House: National Geographic and The World It Made von Poole, Robert M. (16 Ergebnisse)

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hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Illus. with photos (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 357 pp.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Near Fine. Small 1mm nick to top back DJ corner, some minor evidence of shelfwear, otherwise tight, clean copy in Very Good DJ. For more than one hundred years, the National Geographic Society has brought "the world and all that is in it" to millions worldwide. Through its unparalleled research, exploration, publications, and photography, the organization and its magazine have, in many ways, defined how we see the world. Now Robert Poole's Explorers House gives a vibrant, behind-the-scenes look at National Geographic, from its start in 1888 to its evolution into one of the most esteemed and iconic American institutions. The story of the National Geographic is a family story of a media dynasty to rival the Sulzbergers or Luces. The Grosvenors, along with Alexander Graham Bell, who was linked to the family by marriage, created the institution's photography-based monthly, and the family has been on the masthead since the McKinley administration. Content to stay in the shadows, however, they have remained modestly obscured from public view while their media empire has grown to reach some forty million readers and viewers each month. The Grosvenor and Bell family history is not merely the story of the National Geographic; it is a captivating view of the sweep of American scientific, geographic, and political history since the late nineteenth century, rendered in fascinating human terms by Poole. Moreover, Explorers House shows the inside workings of the magazine's editorial process, providing an unprecedented look behind some of National Geographic's ground-breaking articles and explorations-from Cousteau's famous Calypso voyages to the origins of Jane Goodall's research on chimpanzees to the institution's 1963 Mt. Everest expedition, the first to place an American on the summit. We also hear of the writers and photographers who are larger than life figures themselves, such as Luis Marden, the writer-photographer who unearthed the remains of the H.M.S. Bounty off Pitcairn Island, among many other feats. Explorers House presents the National Geographic from the inside out-from its remarkable founding family to the very ends of the earth it investigates.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good/Price Clipped. First Edition. Type: Book Top right corner of ffep slightly damaged where lebel has been peeled away. 357pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Printing [Stated]. [10], 357, [1] pages Genealogical Table. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Small scuff inside front board. Small creases on top edge of dust jacket. Signed by the author, Robert M. Poole, on the title page. Autographed copy sticker inside front cover. How the National Geographic's founding family--now in its fifth generation of leading the organization--overcame personal travails, generational tensions, and political setbacks to transform a struggling technical journal into one of the most respected brands. Robert M. Poole is an editor and writer whose assignments for Smithsonian and National Geographic have taken him around the world. A native of North Carolina and a veteran journalist, his stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Smithsonian. In 2001 he retired as executive editor of National Geographic after a 21 year career. Derived from a Kirkus Review: The former executive editor of its magazine provides a candid history of the National Geographic Society's vision and politics. In 1888, wealthy Washington lawyer Gardiner Greene Hubbard gathered together a group of men and suggested forming a society to advance popular geographical knowledge through lectures and a magazine. He sowed the seeds of the National Geographic Society, but its crucial bearings were set after Hubbard's death, when son-in-law Alexander Graham Bell assumed the society's presidency, extended the organization beyond the confines of Washington, and pushed the magazine to the forefront of operations, championing pictorial content as a vital element of popular appeal. In this gratifyingly chronicle of the society's personalities and initiatives, Poole fairly and thoroughly profiles its leading figures, their strengths and many weaknesses, the positive and negative role played by nepotism. The author also details the society's sponsorship of such figures as Jane Goodall and the Leakeys, and the evolution of the magazine. Changes did not come quickly to the institution, least of all to the editorial content of the magazine; Poole frankly refers to lackluster prose and drifts into racism and anti-Semitism that led in 1937 to a pro-Nazi article, "the biggest embarrassment in the history of the National Geographic Society." Life at National Geographic got hopping in the 1980s, with a whole new group of editors and writers, among them Poole; although he writes with sureness of the organization's past, it is in covering the past 20 years, with all the clashing of wills, that Poole guides readers with special acumen through the mazelike backroom politics. A natty tour of the society's house: closets, skeletons, and all.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Good history of the National Geographic Society. pp357. Unused; shelf wear only.